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England Rules

• England was expanding control over the American Colonies
• Many Colonists bocame dissatisfied and rebellious

What were Englands reasons for control?

• England desired to remain a world power
• England imposed taxes to raise revenue(money)
• Stamp Act

What is the Stamp Act

• Colonists mus buy stamps for all printed material
• When: 1765
• Why? To pay for the cost of the French and Indian War
• Colonists threatened to tar and feather stamp commisioners

What were England's reasons for taxation?

• To help finance the French and Indian War
• To help with the maintaining of English troops in the colonies

Colonists were dissatisfied!

• They resented power of colonial governors!
• They did not like England's strict control over colonial legislatures
• They did not want to pay taxes!
• Taxes angered them.
• They said Parliament could not tax them because they did not have representation!

What is the Proclomation of 1763?

• A law that said the colonists could not settle the Ohio Valley
• They fought the F&I war to win the Ohio Valley
• Colonists found this unfair (some wanted to move west)

Why did the King issue the Proclomation of 1763?

• He thought it would be too expensive to protect the colonies in the Ohio Valley
• 2000 settlers had already died there.

What was the Quartering Act?

• British soldiers must be given food and housing in the colonies
• When:1765
• Would you want to give food and housing to strangers?

Finally the colonies had enough!

• They did not want to be taxed without having anything to say about it!
• They did not have representation in Parliament.
• No Taxation Without Representation!!!